Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 806: Chapter 505: Establishing the Path_2

Though Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion was a True Immortal Sect, in current times, where were True Immortals to be found? Only a few Calamity Immortal ancestors remained, restricted by karma, fearing an increase in calamitous fate, not daring to act rashly.

In such a case, how could this situation be resolved?

Yet it was imperative to resolve it!

The Saint Heir, Saintess, and Saint Lord were all slain outright by someone wielding a sword, a complete family of three, from the eminent Holy Land Immortal Sects. To remain silent and subdued would not only disgrace their reputation but also diminish their prestige. Internally, it would lead to disunity and loss of loyalty.

Once the people’s hearts were scattered, it became difficult to lead the group.

This was the case for the sect, and even more so for the family!

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Xiao Teng didn’t speak of it, but with the two Mahayana of the Xiao Family still in the opponent’s hands, their sect and clan had to make a statement, no matter what.

Otherwise…

“Bah!”

“Madman, do you really think you are invincible under the heavens?”

“This old man shall come and see for myself just how formidable your formation is!”

An elder in black robes, with his beard and hair bristling like a menacing creature, carrying a heavy sword on his back, charged into the formation.

“That is…”

The cultivators’ gazes sharpened, just about to speak, when they saw several people from the sword pavilion make their move.

“Fellow Taoists, please lend a hand!”

The Mahayana cultivators of the sword pavilion arranged their formation aggressively, consolidating peerless Sword Intent, and ferociously bombarded the enemy’s formation.

Seeing this, members from the Five Elements Immortal Sect and Haoyu Heavenly Sect also took action, stationed outside the formation, each launching powerful attacks.

In the Northern Region Dao Vein, the Six Sects and Two Factions, as allies of the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, all needed to exert some effort, venturing into the formation was unlikely, but launching strong attacks from outside to share some of the pressure was still feasible.

The Five Elements Immortal Sect, Haoyu Heavenly Sect, along with the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, the three major Holy Lands initiated strong attacks from outside the formation.

However…

“An external incarnation dares to enter my formation?”

A cold voice echoed, and within the formation, the Five Colors Divine Light twisted and extinguished the ferocious black-robed old man, causing one person within the cultivators of the sword pavilion to turn deathly pale, spewing fresh blood, his injuries unceasing.

“A mere Integration, daring to be so noisy!”

Just then, a cold shout, like thunder shaking the cosmic space, a sword descended from beyond the heavens, resoundingly slicing into the formation.

“Boom!!!”

With a loud noise, the Heavenly Sword struck the formation, causing the formation to surge and the waters of the Southern Sea to boil.

“Calamity Immortal!”

“This sword momentum…”

“It’s Gong Junxin!”

“A newly ascended Calamity Immortal of the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion!”

“Old Ghost Xiao, still unwilling to take action?”

Witnessing this scene, the cultivators showed varying expressions, some watched coldly, some were secretly disappointed, especially the members of the Big Dipper Immortal Sect.

This mess was stirred up by the Xiao Family; by rights, it was their responsibility to clean it up.

However, that Calamity Immortal ancestor of the Xiao Family, who already endured Fivefold Immortal Calamity, was currently facing the Six Heavenly Calamity, a critical moment indeed, and truly reluctant to take risks, get entangled in karma, and increase the calamity count.

Thus, only the newly ascended Calamity Immortal Gong Junxin came.

Speaking of a newly ascended Calamity Immortal, but having been in calamity for tens of thousands of years, already reaching the Third Trial of the Second Calamity, yet this person was exceptionally talented and extraordinarily strong, having great confidence before the Six Calamities, so there was less restriction on him acting.

This time the conservative Five Calamity ancestor of the Xiao Family did not come, but they paid a tremendous price to persuade Gong Junxin to act. They needed to clean up this mess no matter what.

Receiving payment to eliminate calamities for others, not to mention there was also camaraderie and intertwined interests, Gong Junxin also did his utmost. With one sword, he broke into the formation, making the Southern Sea boil.

“Lend a hand to Lord Supreme Elder!”

Seeing this, the cultivators of the sword pavilion also vigorously launched their attacks, their Sword Qi flowing like rivers, wildly bombarding, vowing to break the foundation of the opponent’s formation.

However…

“Hum!”

With a turn in the formation, Yin and Yang shifted, instantly revealing a scene of black and white, with the Yin-Yang fish chasing each other’s tails, accompanied by the rise of Five Colors Light, twisting like swords, sweeping across and settling on that Sword Light, immediately causing the Sword Qi to dissipate, showing its true form, which turned out to be an immensely gorgeous Immortal Sword spanning a thousand feet.

Afterward, as the formation roared into action, heaven and earth responded, a splendid sword light emerged, commanding heaven and earth, controlling the people’s hearts, merging Yin and Yang, and converting the Five Elements. Although there was no Treasury of Merit, the Nine Instruments Sword was nonpareil, Xuanyuan’s Holy Path also unmatched.

With such a sword, resplendently emerging, carrying the entire momentum of heaven and earth, the might of the Holy Path, it struck thunderously on that gorgeous Immortal Sword atop, directly causing the thousand-feet Sword Artifact to shatter, tragically annihilating within the formation.

“Pff!!!”

Outside the formation, from an unknown location, a muffled sound burst forth, as if blood gushed out.

Within the formation, Xu Yang sat alone, looking at the vanishing Sword Light, disdainfully said, “External incarnations, cowards all!”

Having said that, with a stir of Divine Sense, the formation suddenly expanded outward aggressively.

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“Not good!”

“Retreat quickly!”

Outside the formation, before the crowd could react, they saw Divine Light burst forth, coming like a rainbow mist, driving the expansion of the formation, crossing the boundaries of the Southern Sea, intending to encompass them within the formation.

The formation, a natural law of heaven and earth, is strongest when stationary, but that does not mean it cannot move. Many high-order formations have methods for outward attacks and expansion, only that they are slow, lack mobility, and have many vulnerabilities that enemies can exploit.

However, now this Five Elements Formation had, under the guidance of the Formation Master, changed its usual state, aggressively expanding and swiftly encompassing the crowd within it, leaving even those who had been coldly observing from the Big Dipper Immortal Sect, the Great Sun Immortal Sect, and the Taixuan Tao Mountain unable to escape.

“This…”

“Elder Ancestor!”

Trapped within the formation, under the dim sky and dark earth, sensing the mechanism of Yin Yang Creation and the influence of the Five Elements, all the Mahayana could not help but change color and urgently cried out.

“Humph!!!”

At the same time, a cold snort sounded from outside the formation, and Sword Qi Divine Light appeared simultaneously with Magical Powers launching forth, forcefully breaking into the formation and opening several pathways.

“Retreat!!!”

Seeing this, the crowd did not dare to delay, and immediately leapt up, fleeing towards the outside of the formation.

However, as the formation operated, Five Colors Divine Light swept across like swords, and under the effect of Scouring the Court and Sweeping the Den, there were still some who failed to dodge in time, their Protective Immortal Light was broken, and their forms were swept up by the rainbow mist.

In the end, out of dozens of Mahayana from various sects, only half managed to escape, with the rest falling into the formation.

Flee, flee, flee!

Escape Lights broke out of the formation, not daring to linger even a moment longer, desperately fleeing away.

Only when they had reached ten thousand li away, far from the realm of the Southern Sea and returned to the land of Central Plains, did these individuals show themselves.

“How could this be, how could this be!”

“That formation could expand like that?”

“This Li Xuanyuan… could he be an Eighth-Order Formation Dao Immortal Master?”

“Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, what a great job you’ve done!”

The cultivators stopped in their tracks, manifesting physically, looking at each other with unsettled spirits as they recalled the recent events and the comrades who had not escaped the formation. Shock and anger intermixed, with those from the Big Dipper Immortal Sect and the Great Sun Immortal Sect directing their furious words towards the fortuitously escaped Sword Pavilion cultivators.

The people of the Sword Pavilion, faces ashen, paid no heed to this and directly soared away on their swords, leaving the others furiously stamping their feet.

“Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion!”

“This Li Xuanyuan, is he that powerful?”

“Even the External Incarnation of a Second Calamity Immortal Being was shattered by a single sword.”

“That Gong Junxin really is cautious, only using his External Incarnation to act, not personally entering the formation.”

“It’s precisely this caution that has caused us such suffering!”

“If it weren’t for a few ancestors breaking open several pathways, wouldn’t we all have been trapped in the formation for Li Xuanyuan to capture today?”

“Humph, having his External Incarnation slain, the main body, though not dead, must have suffered serious damage to his Vital Energy. I’d like to see how Gong Junxin is going to get through the next Threefold Immortal Calamity!”

“After losing so many and with one in the Tribulation Realm seriously injured, the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion must either summon those few old ghosts or…”

“Whatever happens to Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, what does it have to do with us at the Big Dipper Immortal Sect, why attack us who are uninvolved?”

“Several brothers are trapped within the formation, how to rescue, how to rescue?”

With shocked and angry words from the Mahayana, they were overwhelmed, unsure what to do next.

Meanwhile, in the realm of the Southern Sea, within the formation.

The Hundred Sects and Ten Factions, along with other cultivators from the sidelines, were also dumbstruck by the outcome and took a long while to react.

“This…”

“Even the Calamity Immortal!”

“All defeated?”

Their eyes met, all filled with shock, indescribable.

Calamity Immortal, that’s a Calamity Immortal!

Left-handed cultivators, followers of left-handed paths could at most achieve Mahayana, then they would be bound by their cultivation method as their mixed immortal power halted progress, forever unable to reach the Tribulation Realm.

This had always been why peripheral paths were suppressed by the authentic central orthodoxies—without reaching the Tribulation Realm, not becoming Immortal Gods, they remained mere ants.

But now…

“At last, a True Immortal emerges from the cultivation realm of Southern Sea!”

“Li… Elder, should be the leader of the peripheral paths, revered in Southern Sea!”

“What peripheral path, from today onwards, Southern Sea is also orthodox.”

“The Venerable Leader, generous and kindhearted, a cultivator of morals, performed many deeds benefiting the Southern Sea during his time in Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, and now with the establishment of his Tao, he will surely exceed his past!”